It’s been a while since I posted any recent updates. I’ve been trying to catch up on posts from the Netherlands, and I’m most of the way through those. It’s been slow for a number of reasons, which I’ll go through in this post. There are some interesting updates from Justine’s birthday, mushroom foraging, and our recent “bomb cyclone”.
Read MoreRandom Vancouver and Galiano Updates
Work is insanely busy right now, so I’m having a hard time getting to updates from the Netherlands trip. We’ve also had some fun days here in Vancouver, so I thought I’d do a quick and easy update from the last trip to Galiano and recent photos from Vancouver - we had another amazing Northern Lights display!
Read MoreNorthern Lights, Bioluminescence, Whales and More! 2 Weeks on Galiano!
We headed over to Galiano on Sunday morning for what was to be our longest ever stay - two full weeks. I had to head back for work for one day in the middle, but other than that we were working from the cottage and trying to enjoy the end of the summer. We had a rangle of adventures, including seeing the Northern Lights, bioluminescence while kayaking, whales on numerous occasions and more.
Read MoreA Visit with John and Katie
Much like the last post, this one is about a weekend on Galiano with some friends! We’ll start with a couple of interesting things from Vancouver, then get into a fun weekend with our friends Katie and John, who came to Galiano to hang out with us for the weekend.
Read MoreA Visit with Cindy and KJ
The next couple of weeks are buy for us with having some friends staying with us on Galiano. Cindy and KJ were our first visitors, coming in from Toronto as part of one of Cindy’s business trips. We hadn’t seen them in a bit, and we were excited to come have them stay with us!
Read MoreCanada Day Birds
The last post was starting to get a bit too long, so I thought I better cut it off at the end of the day on Saturna. After getting home we spent the rest of the day just relaxing, and managed to get quite a few good photos of the birds around the property. This post might not be for everyone, but consider yourself warned!
Read MoreCanada Day! Saturna and Hanging Around Galiano
With Canada Day being on a Monday, we used the holiday to spend 10 days on Galiano. We headed over the Friday before, and had the weekend to relax, get some work done and enjoy summer (finally!). On Canada Day, our friend David was picking us up for our 2nd annual trip to Saturna for the epic Lamb BBQ. The rest of the week was working, then our friends Cindy and KJ were coming to stay - but we’ll cover that trip in the next post.
Read MoreJune Weekends on Galiano
For this post, there’s not a lot ot share really. June was busy, with Justine on her big family girls trip to London, so we ahd one weekend together and one where I was on Galiano solo. This post is mostly updates on the state of the cottage, the gardens, and of course, the birds. But nothing too exciting I’m afraid.
Read MoreA Visit from Mom
We were lucky enough to have Mom come and stay with us for a week over my birthday weekend! She was in town for a Wednesday to Wednesday, over the long weekend. We had a couple of days in Vancouver and then we headed over to Galiano, as she really wanted to see all that we had done. We did need her help with one last project to finish off the new deck…
Read MoreA May Galiano Update - Northern Lights!
We were headed back to Galiano for the weekend to complete (or mostly complete?) our deck building project. We had a couple of final pieces to put together, and we really wanted it done and ready for when Mom was visiting over my birthday weekend. The big surprise we ended up with was the amazing Northern Lights show that happened on Friday night. It was spectacular, a once in a generation solar storm that light up the skies!
Read MoreThe Pottery Reveal
While I will deliver the promised pottery reveal, this post will also cover a lot of other ground, including a fun night out in Vancouver and the completion of the first major phase of our deck on Galiano. I’ll sneak in a garden update as well, but amazingly, no birds!
Read MoreEaster Long Weekend on Galiano
I’m going to have to make this one quick - we’re headed to Ontario for our Solar Eclipse trip tomorrow evening. That said, we had a very busy and productive weekend on Galiano over Easter, so I thought I’d share a few photos of the progress being made.
Read MoreAn Overdue Spring Update
I am a bit overdue on a new update, and while nothing really interesting has happened, there has been a lot of smaller things going on. So I thought I’d try and wrap it all up in one post and share a few photos and some updates. I’m not really sure how this one is going to work out, but let’s get into it and see how it goes…
Read MoreHiking in Squamish
Over the long weekend we headed up to Squamish to do a day hike at the top of the Sea to Sky Gondola. We were hoping to go snowshoeing, but with this winter being what it is, there’s hardly any snow, even at elevation. So we met our friend Nicole at the gondola and deaded up to see what we would find!
Read MoreSnowy Galiano
With my long trip to France and India coming up, we needed to head over to Galiano to check up on things. We were also about to have our first real blast of winter, and we wanted to make sure the place was holding up to the cold temperatures. We had planned to go over Friday night, but the weather was rough and the ferries got cancelled. Justine was on the bal and had booked a second ferry for Saturday morning, so we got there a day later than we had planned. And yes, winter had arrived…
Read MoreHappy New Years from Galiano
After arriving back from Toronto, we had one quick day at home to unpack and get things organized before we headed over to Galino for New Year’s Eve. We were staying for a few days into the new year which was unseasonably warm but gave us an opportunity to get out and do a few things and continue some projects around the property.
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